Anniversaries

3rd March 1985 (42 Years)

NUM decided to end the Miner's strike.

3rd March 1996 (31 Years)

Marguerite Duras, a French writer of award-winning books such as L'Amant and film director, dies.

3rd March 2003 (24 Years)

Luis Marden, American photojournalist (b. 1913), died.

4th March 1193 (834 Years)

Saladin, Iraqi-Egyptian sultan who led the Muslim opposition to the Crusaders in the Levant, died.

4th March 1493 (534 Years)

Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.

4th March 1890 (137 Years)

The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.

4th March 1913 (114 Years)

Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president of the United States.

4th March 1916 (111 Years)

Franz Marc, a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement and a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter, died in France.

4th March 1916 (111 Years)

Franz Marc, German painter and printmaker, dies.

4th March 1917 (110 Years)

Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to hold national office in the United States: "I may be the first woman member of Congress but I won’t be the last.".

4th March 1918 (109 Years)

The USS Cyclops departs from Barbados and is never seen again, lost in the Bermuda Triangle.

4th March 1922 (105 Years)

Release of Nosferatu, a German Expressionist horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.

4th March 1922 (105 Years)

Expressionist horror film, Nosferatu, is released in Germany.

4th March 1928 (99 Years)

Alan Sillitoe, English author and poet, was born.

4th March 1932 (95 Years)

Miriam Makeba, South African singer-songwriter, actress, and activist, was born.

4th March 1936 (91 Years)

German airship Hindenburg made its first flight. It was destroyed by fire in May 1937.

4th March 1952 (75 Years)

Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis got married in Los Angeles, California.

4th March 1975 (52 Years)

Comic genius Charlie Chaplin is knighted.

4th March 1980 (47 Years)

Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.

5th March 1616 (411 Years)

Work of Copernicus banned by the Congregation of the Index.

5th March 1817 (210 Years)

The Rt Hon Sir Austen Henry Layard, English traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, best known as the excavator of Nimrud and Niniveh was born.

5th March 1827 (200 Years)

Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist known for inventing the battery, dies.

5th March 1850 (177 Years)

The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.

5th March 1868 (159 Years)

Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its première performance at La Scala.

5th March 1936 (91 Years)

The Supermarine Spitfire, the prototype of a British single-seat fighter aircraft took off on its first flight from Eastleigh Aerodrome (later Southampton Airport).

5th March 1946 (81 Years)

Winston Churchill gives his famous "Iron Curtain" speech.

5th March 1953 (74 Years)

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Russian and Soviet composer, pianist and conductor, died.

5th March 1953 (74 Years)

Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, died.

5th March 1966 (61 Years)

Anna Akhmatova, Russian modernist poet and one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon, dies.

6th March 1475 (552 Years)

Michelangelo Buonarroti was born near Arezzo, Italy.

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